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Garden City Looks to Defend the Long Island Class AA Crown
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series Garden City captures the Nassau Class AA Championship with an 8-5 win over Bellmore JFK! pic.twitter.com/uPmwi3gBIF — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 31, 2025 Garden City (24-5) was a wagon in the postseason, rattling off eight consecutive wins en route to their first Long Island Championship since 2021. In the beginning, it did not appear it was going to go that way. In their first playoff game against MacArthur, who entered coming off a loss to New Hyde Park, they fell behind 6-1 in the bottom of the 6th. MacArthur was flying high following a grand slam by Nick Albert. The tides seemed to turn after that, however. The Trojan bats went to work and their bullpen held the fort as they held on f...
Sunday Spotlight: Evan Cabral
(Photo Credit: Ed Rotondo) Stony Brook-commit Evan Cabral’s homer in Garden City’s win pic.twitter.com/8ba0wAvpV8 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 11, 2025 How do you follow up a record-breaking season in which you post a school-record .603 batting average? How about a Long Island-leading 10 home runs and leading your team to the Class AA Long Island Championship. For Garden City, it was a dream season as they not only captured the Long Island Championship over East Islip, but won eight consecutive playoff games along the way before finally losing in the Southeast Regional to Fox Lane. Evan Cabral, a Stony Brook-signee, was among the most dangerous hitters in the region and a huge reason for their success. He finished a decorated career with exactly 100 hits. He batted .380 in ...
Fox Lane Surges Late to Beat Garden City, Win First Regional Since 2003
by Tucker Terranova Section I Champion Fox Lane defeats Garden City 4-3 in the NYPHSAA Quarterfinals, advancing to the seminfinals next Friday at Union Endicott HS. The Foxes will meet either Section II Champion Ballston Spa or Section III Champion West Genesee. pic.twitter.com/Dg3NK3pPRm — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 7, 2025 Situational baseball has been Fox Lane’s focal point all season — and when it mattered most, it delivered. Trailing by two early, the Section I champions rallied for four unanswered runs, including a decisive two-run surge in the seventh inning, to edge Long Island champion Garden City, 4-3, in Saturday’s NYSPHSAA Class AA quarterfinal at Hofstra University. “We’ve been doing this all season,” said second baseman Danny Spolansky. “We feel like when our b...
Garden City Captures Class AA Long Island Championship with 10-5 Win Over East Islip
by Tucker Terranova Jack Murphy discusses his base-clearing triple which gave Garden City a lead they wouldn’t relinquish, as well as what was working for his squad today and what an LIC means for the program. pic.twitter.com/zMzYcQoMhC — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) June 5, 2025 The typical approach against a sub-1.00 ERA Division-I arm? Scratch out a run or two and lean on your pitching to do the rest. Garden City had other plans. Facing League IV MVP Thomas Costarelli and the top statistical pitching staff on Long Island, the Trojans erupted for nine runs across the fourth and fifth innings, storming past Suffolk Class AA champion East Islip, 10-5, to capture the Class AA Long Island Championship Thursday at Farmingdale State College. The win delivered Garden City its first LIC ...
GAME RECAP: Zach Zander Fires Six Shutout Innings as Garden City Cruises to 5-0 Win
by Max Edelman FINAL: Garden City 5 – Carey 0 An all-around dominant victory for Garden City, who shut out the Seahawks at home. pic.twitter.com/BereUi39Iz — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 10, 2025 A cold rainy Thursday afternoon couldn’t cool off the Garden City Trojans, as they cruised to a 5-0 shutout home victory over the Carey Seahawks on April 10. Zach Zander was the star of the show for the Trojans, pitching six innings of shutout baseball in which he struck out six and didn’t walk a single batter. After the game, Zander praised his defense, who turned two double plays during the game, and helped keep the Seahawks off the scoresheet. “It’s hard enough to pitch in the cold,” Zander said. “It makes it so much easier when you have seven guys behind you that are making...
Following Record Setting Season, Evan Cabral Looks to Lead Garden City Back to Postseason
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman In his sixth season with Garden City, head coach Dave Izzo guided his team into one of the most challenging conferences that Long Island has to offer. Izzo was able to take his team to a regular season conference championship before falling to Division in the playoffs. “We played in arguably the toughest conference on Long Island in my opinion.” Izzo said. “With Division, Calhoun and Carey. We won the conference regular season, which was great. We went into the last three game series of the season against Division and whoever won the series was conference champs and we beat them two out of three. But we saw them in the quarterfinals of the playoffs and they smoked us.” Garden City junior...
Where Are They Now: Matt Daley
Thousands upon thousands of boys grow up dreaming to play Major League Baseball. Very few are talented enough to even play at the collegiate level. Truly passionate baseball fans will still try to find a way into the industry through a position as a journalist, a scout or if they are intelligent enough, a front office position. Garden City alum Matt Daley is in the very, very small subsection of the baseball world that was both talented enough to play at the big league level while being intelligent enough to transition into a front office position for the New York Yankees. If that sounds difficult to do, that’s because it is. Most organization are looking for highly-educated individuals with economic degrees or MBAs as opposed to a former player that simply has an eye for talent. Daley, wh...
Calhoun’s Clutch Hitting Blasts Them Past Garden City
by Mike Merolle The @GCsports player of the game was Calhoun’s Joe Belbol. He spoke to Axcess Baseball after defeating Garden City 11-3 pic.twitter.com/CTVyLs3SM0 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 11, 2024 The Calhoun Colts did not let rainy conditions affect their game on Thursday as they defeated Garden City 11-3. The Calhoun bats made the difference in this one but the early game had solid pitching by both sides. Josh Cohen was on the mound for Garden City and his first inning went as any pitcher would dream. A strikeout and two quick outs assisted by the defense. The outing began to go south in the third as the Colts started putting runners on base. For Calhoun, Ryan Morash pitched the entire game and was efficient. Morash allowed early scoring but shut the door quickly a f...
Wantagh’s Jack Tate Does It All on Opening Day Victory over Garden City
by Max Edelman FINAL: Wantagh 8 – Garden City 4 Wantagh spoils Garden City’s home opener. pic.twitter.com/J7AUE7Lliw — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 1, 2024 The Wantagh Warriors spoiled the Garden City Trojans home opener with an 8-2 victory on April. 1. Despite a strong start by East Carolina commit Gabriel Beschloss, the Warriors were able to use a five-run fifth inning to take down the Trojans. Wantagh starting pitcher Jack Tate shined both on the mound and at the plate. On the mound, Tate pitched 5.2 innings with nine strikeouts and allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits. At the plate, Tate went 2-for-4 with a pair of singles, one of which was a key hit in the fifth inning, which helped the Warriors pull ahead in the contest. “I knew I had to come out and throw ...
Where Are They Now: Matt Daley
Thousands upon thousands of boys grow up dreaming to play Major League Baseball. Very few are talented enough to even play at the collegiate level. Truly passionate baseball fans will still try to find a way into the industry through a position as a journalist, a scout or if they are intelligent enough, a front office position. Garden City alum Matt Daley is in the very, very small subsection of the baseball world that was both talented enough to play at the big league level while being intelligent enough to transition into a front office position for the New York Yankees. If that sounds difficult to do, that’s because it is. Most organization are looking for highly-educated individuals with economic degrees or MBAs as opposed to a former player that simply has an eye for talent. Dal...
Garden City Returns 15 Players from 18-Win Team
by Max Edelman Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s season preview series SUNY Maritime RHP Frank Santeramo (Garden City 2021) back to full health following July 2022 TJ surgery. FB sitting 90-92 MPH pic.twitter.com/m84WxeiEzv — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) January 9, 2024 Running into the eventual league champions never ends well, and for the Garden City Trojans, that was their fate. Head coach Dave Izzo, who is entering his eighth year as Trojans head coach, led his team to an 18-7 overall record (15-3 league) as well as a semifinal appearance in the playoffs. However, that was the end of the road for Garden City, as they were defeated by Division in the semifinals. Izzo looked back on what he believed was a great season with an unfort...
GAME RECAP: Garden City Comes-From-Behind to Defeat Mineola, 4-3
Final: Garden City 4, Mineola 3 WP: Xander Palmer S: Matt Liberopoulos Aidan Walsh HBP to score go-ahead run pic.twitter.com/FpLQKSeaI7 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 15, 2023 No. 6 Garden City (15-3) hosted No. 11 Mineola (11-7) this afternoon on an absolutely perfect day in Garden City. The Trojans overcame a 3-1 deficit against a talented Mustangs team. There was not much offense at all in this game as there was a combined three hits and Mineola’s first hit came in the 7th inning. Garden City used a trio of left-handed pitchers to combine for the victory. They started ECU-commit Gabe Beschloss against Mineola’s RHP EJ Van Grembergen. Beschloss had his good velocity, but his command was not at its best today. He walked two batters in the first inning, although he ...
